Gary Rowett is to speak to Jack Butland this weekend as he reiterates his hope to keep him at Stoke City.

Butland’s future is back at the top of the agenda as Stoke prepare to sanction the surprise exit of Lee Grant to Manchester United.

It is believed the 25-year-old had been on Arsenal’s radar before they signed Bernd Leno from Bayer Leverkusen earlier this month – and a handful of other Premier League clubs have been testing the water.

But Butland, currently on World Cup duty in Russia with England, is not interested in a sideways move and it has not been ruled out that he will stay in the Championship.

Jack Butland is with the England squad in Russia for the World Cup. (Image: David Ramos - FIFA/FIFA via Getty Images)

Rowett said: “It’s not a case of needing to know where we stand, he’s our keeper. At the moment, we’ve got Jack, we’ve got Lee Grant and Jakob Haugaard. We’ve got three very good keepers at different levels of experience. I think that’s the same all over the pitch.

“Because Jack is a terrific goalkeeper and obviously with England at the moment, everyone will speculate that because you’ve been relegated, of course he’s going to have to go, he’s going to want to go.

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“But the reality is – and you’ve seen it with Joe Allen and other players – people want to be at this football club. I’ll speak to Jack and we’ll assess that as we go on.

“Unfortunately in football you can’t affect someone coming in with a huge bid to try to prise one of your best players away but at the same time, he’s our player and we hope he’ll be our player next season.”

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“Jack is of course one we know will be highly sought after but in a way I don’t mind that. You want all of your players to be highly sought after because that means we’ve got fantastic players here that other clubs are noticing and the staff here are doing really good jobs.

“I’ll never be fearful of clubs wanting our players. Whether anyone pays the money anyone thinks a player is worth or whether a manager wants to let a player go is a completely different ball game.”